From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757447AbYEVRsc (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 13:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755036AbYEVRsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 13:48:25 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:44993 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754449AbYEVRsY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 13:48:24 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4835B144.4000101@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:45:40 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080419 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Arjan van de Ven , Bosko Radivojevic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics References: <20080522144114.GC27301@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080522075135.4933161c@infradead.org> <20080522155425.GA2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <48359DE1.8050600@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080522170956.GC2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20080522170956.GC2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:22:57PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> And ALSA alone has 2000 open bug reports, which makes the open ACPI or >>> SCSI bug numbers relatively irrelevant in any "number of bugs" >>> statistics. >> Central facilities like ACPI and SCSI having relatively few [and >> according to Arjan a decreasing number of] reported unfixed bugs is... >> irrelevant? > > Yes, _in any "number of bugs" statistics_ that is irrelevant. Well, yes, in any "simplistic total number of bugs without any frame of reference what is actually counted" statistics it is indeed irrelevant. [...] > We do not even have good data for "number of bug reports". That's right. We don't have comprehensive data, and it is difficult to draw conclusions from the data that we have. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/